Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [pron] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite unexpectedly , we found that there was another type of ganglion cell which we called the on-type directionally selective because , when plotting their receptive fields with a stationary spot , they only responded at onset , unlike the other type I have just illustrated which responded at both onset and offset ; we still do not understand the reason for this , but it led us to discover other differences . |
| 2 | The enhanced results which can be obtained using a combined therapeutic regime are well illustrated by a study which we had the opportunity of carrying out about three years ago at a residential health establishment in Crieff . |
| 3 | But it is not confrontation itself which creates the tension in dramatic terms . |
| 4 | Talking as a fan myself I prefer the Oval to Windsor as a venue for atmosphere and pitch quality . |
| 5 | Well they just er they just forked them they they brought up the side what I said the boss , you see . |
| 6 | Its successor , The Hand of Ethelberta ( 1876 ) , a comic satire on fashionable London society , was a deliberate attempt to write the kind of fiction which he felt the clients of circulating libraries expected . |
| 7 | However , in the context of the volatile reaction , both internal and external , to a relatively mild Agrarian Reform initiative , they may well have served to endorse Castro 's conclusion that the social change which he wanted the revolution to effect in Cuba was incompatible with extremely powerful domestic and foreign economic interests . |
| 8 | Instead , the teacher reinforces the responsibility which she wants the children to exercise over their own learning , and the support they can offer to one another without needing to turn to her for confirmation . |
| 9 | At the first meeting of the committee which I attended the secretary announced that it would be necessary for members to disclose their interests , meaning thereby that they should declare with what companies and organisations they were involved . |
| 10 | In the process the West may have sold itself a weapons portfolio which it lacks the means to produce in quantity . |
| 11 | Sir Anthony concludes that the DTI did not adopt this tactic ‘ as a matter of urgency ’ because of the ‘ inadequate grasp within the Licensing Unit of the detail of their powers under the Act which they had the task of administering . ’ |
| 12 | Broadly speaking , the courts have taken the view that the bounds of parliamentary privilege are fixed by the common law which they have the right to declare . |
| 13 | Erm a for that reason , I have in my evidence commended some alternative wording to you which is based upon erm a panel report for the Nottinghamshire structure plan who who considered the issue . |
| 14 | But when I went to university , I did n't bother at all until I encountered a girl who I got the impression would be immensely impressed if I could speak . |
| 15 | No they get nothing , they 'd get , all they went on the dole , well they used to get , they used to get erm , say yeah well you would get welfare benefit what we call the club , you go on the club and you see used t I , my , apparently had a private club , you could have both you see you had the private club and you got so much from the government , the National Health . |
| 16 | Although I am a motorist myself I use the car as little as possible , prefering to cycle for all urban journeys . |
| 17 | Deborah told her new boss what she believed the company needed : ‘ Principally the clothes were an insult to the country girls they were trying to portray … they were n't suitable for country wear but they were selling very cheaply to secretaries in towns . |
| 18 | But it is the university itself which gives the scene its elegance . |
| 19 | ( Waddington et al. , 1990 , show that in the Nottinghamshire community which they surveyed the immigrant and the ‘ local ’ miners were spatially segregated within the housing stock and that most of the miners who joined the strike were among the recent immigrants whose home lives were somewhat separate from those of the rest of the community . ) |
| 20 | ( 1990 ) report that whereas in a Yorkshire mining community the pro-Labour Daily Mirror was the most widely-read daily newspaper , both before and after the strike , in the Nottinghamshire community which they surveyed the pro-Conservative The Sun was the most popular before the strike , and equally popular with the Daily Mirror after it . |
| 21 | Although I recognise that they may not have pleased everybody , an aim which I think the house would agree , would be impossible to achieve , I believe they have carried out their task in an objective and impartial way . |
| 22 | Certainly that would be o o one scenario which I think the county will have to contemplate . |
| 23 | Erm certainly , as a group we we welcome the fact that there is a provision for travellers in Harlow on the two permanent sites and we also welcome the upgrading er , of the to happen , although I very much hope it does n't . |
| 24 | When she stopped speaking his feeling of animosity towards her seeped from him , and the pity that he always felt for her again rose to the surface and for a moment he himself knew the extent of her frustration and the reason behind her furious tantrums when she had known his uncle was going to marry again . |
| 25 | And the sprinkle what they call the sprinkler was a smaller car |
| 26 | Led by the thought that the evidence of our senses is basic both in epistemology and in the theory of meaning , positivists such as Ayer proposed as a theory of meaning what they called the verification principle of empirical significance ( see Ayer , 1946 , and Schlick , 1936 ) : |
| 27 | ‘ The game we play with the word ‘ toothache ’ entirely depends upon there being a behaviour which we call the expression of toothache . ’ |
| 28 | Ranald fetched his harp , and he sang a story of a great selkie , one of the seal people , who loved a land maiden but warned her that if she took their son away from him , the baby would kill him when he grew up ; but in fear that her child would become a wild selkie himself she stole the baby and reared him inland as a normal man . |
| 29 | But it is not just how the new consciousness is to be used which produces problems in handling this new-found wisdom ; it is the very acquisition of knowledge itself which makes the concept of self so dynamic . |
| 30 | It was the Mau Mau conflict itself which forced the government to recognize the need to increase the productivity of the Kikuyu areas , and it was the same conflict which facilitated the means . |